Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/February 2015

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February 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 February 1

1. Q-Spoil
2. evolution of bacteria and washing
3. Incandescent light bulb history
4. Zyklon B
5. Is this real?
6. Why does the space lift need a cable of 22,236+ miles?
7. Neurology: Dearth of research on treating Periodic Limb Movement Disorder (PLMD) with Baclofen
8. Swingset obsession sources?

February 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 February 2

1. Taking a picture of the past without a camera
2. Fastest speed
3. What is the liquid sprayed at the base of the rocket in this rocket launch animation?
4. Do all batteries decay with cycles of charging and re-charging?

February 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 February 3

1. Sulfate calcination
2. Non-visible paint ?
3. What's the tougher technical problem for using hydrogen fuel in a car?
4. Sun
5. Gas lost from atmosphere

February 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 February 4

1. "Geo warping"
2. Converting sounds into colors
3. Deuterium
4. Spontaneous Hummingbird Combustion
5. Asthma Meds
6. Why aren't baboons extinct ?
7. Can rockets fueled with liquid hydrogen, use the oxygen of the air?

February 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 February 5

1. causes of condom failure
2. cold dark matter and nuclei
3. Space Elevator
4. Strength of bronze

February 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 February 6

1. Purification
2. Are gonanes steranes?
3. Humorous description of paleontology/the fossil record
4. Is lead solder wire unhealthy for the user of it or for the environment?

February 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 February 7

1. Self-assembly and creation of carbon nanotubes fibers
2. Alewives
3. Tire radius and mileage
4. Can a rotating black hole be a pulsar?

February 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 February 8

1. Telomeres predict maximum age of 200 years?
2. hypeto-particle
3. H2O2 cerumen reaction
4. Direction of Earth revolution

February 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 February 9

1. What percentage of people are medically excluded from getting vaccines?
2. 500-megahertz quartz oscillator meme
3. Contact Jean Meeus
4. Three cars colliding
5. Leak repair
6. Before pasteurization, did people drink milk from livestock?

February 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 February 10

1. water use comparison:production of gallon of milk vs gallon of soy milk vs gallon of almond milk
2. strain guage load indicator
3. Temperature profiles
4. Why did?
5. How did the organs evolve?
6. What is the evolutionary advantage in learning to control the anal sphincters?

February 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 February 11

1. Cross Reaction Drugs Petri Dish pictures
2. Dirt blower
3. How can those Flicker 3 Wheel Scooter move uphill?
4. Power electronic
5. Is the Law of conservation of energy being the absolute law of physics?
6. Unit of mass
7. Sanitary whole house humidifier ?
8. Schuko plugs with smaller pins
9. How to power a cell-phone through a USB connection instead of the battery.
10. Research papers

February 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 February 12

1. What are stem cells?
2. Faraday cage and holes in one dimension
3. Testosterone and the voice
4. The Keen senses of the Gray Wolf, Jaguar/Panther and Puma
5. Sports science - runners' flexibility test
6. Metric Expansion of Space Article Removed by IP

February 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 February 13

1. Shrinking atom
2. pulmonary function test
3. A quantum leap (jump) in the state of quantum equilibrium (balance) of the Law of conservation of energy
4. Self-esteem and its relationship with narcissism.
5. Is there any reliable evidence of different CD players differing in audio quality?
6. Why did my cat meow at a youtube clip about a giraffe tossed from a space station?

February 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 February 14

1. MMR Vaccine side effects
2. What does N/A stands for?
3. What is the kink in a thermometer ?
4. What is been the cause of local fighting in the East of the Republic Ukraine?
5. Friction force must be velocity dependent
6. Writing research reports
7. Testing a helmet by being driven over by a tank
8. black body radiation 86.190.50.197 (talk) 15:39, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
9. aurora borealis
10. Could one of the planets of the Solar System previously be a space star?
11. Clearing the neighbourhood
12. Planet_retrograding_motion

February 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 February 15

1. Need a Picture of Evolutionary Biologist Robert Trivers
2. Seeing the curvature of the earth from land
3. About Schizotypal Personality Disorder
4. Who am I -- ungulates(?) in Slovakia
5. Sustainability magazines
6. Planck times
7. Check valve with rubber plug?
8. Why do Europeans are more diverse regarding hair and eye color?
9. What is the farthest distance from Earth reached by a spacecraft that came back?

February 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 February 16

1. Genus species
2. horseshoe crabs and their medical products
3. cesium-137 Question
4. Species ID
5. What determines the direction of movement in a Rotor ship?
6. What is the advantage of Wi-Fi before GSM?
7. Drinking water vs. drinking water with sodium electrolytes

February 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 February 17

1. Modern battering rams
2. About biological computer simulations...
3. MIT study about living on Mars
4. Tacking an untethered lighter than air vehicle?

February 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 February 18

1. Cell Phone for Use in Europe
2. Internet connection: charging by the time or amount?
3. MH370 radio
4. Planting milkweed and Monarch butterfly--when and where is it helpful?

February 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 February 19

1. mixture of hair colours
2. 72 hour pattern discovered
3. Banana spiders - season for spinning webs
4. Are Chicory and belgian endive one and the same?
5. How to collect water vapor in the desert?
6. Is it possible satellite (sputnik) tracking for general radio and TV broadcasting?
7. To those with knowledge in Biochemistry, Endocrinology, or Internal Medicine
8. Boltzmann brain
9. Human teeth and spider silk
10. The trash or the recycle bin?
11. A query about cell phones and signals
12. 5 ways organize information
13. Are Nobel prizes in science a Golden standard for quality?
14. Per act transmission of HIV/AIDS

February 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 February 20

1. I put a six-pack of soda can in a river, which was not frozen

February 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 February 21

1. Technical term for the rejection of Cholecystokinin (CCK) stimulation by gallbladder?
2. Is the computer a logical robot?
3. distance to Venus and Mars at the present time
4. Technical reports
5. The Sound of Meteors
6. Freezer energy use as a function of mass and insulation

February 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 February 22

1. Conjoined twins
2. Citation for Yang-Mills Theory - Mathematical Overview
3. Animal species with biological ornaments in females
4. Does higher levels of Testosterone help in recovering lost/damaged tissue, same way it helps increase recovery and growth of muscles etc.?
5. Technology identification
6. GR inertial reference frames.

February 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 February 23

1. brightness of an inferior planet
2. Did the speed of light been a constant in nature?
3. A Really Tall Ship, or how to "fly" a planet.
4. Referencing
5. Title lineage of University Physics
6. If beer and wine are acidic, then why do they taste bitter?
7. Comparing human and machine energy efficiency
8. Poincare thought experiment
9. What does it take to set up a personal laboratory in the 21st century?

February 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 February 24

1. Chemical composition of Steam
2. Is there a maximum time limit to a human courtship?
3. Growing outside the womb

February 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 February 25

1. How are contactless credit cards protected against electronic pick-pocketing?
2. Can one get his entire/whole vas deferens removed?
3. Are there quantum effects having unexpected "memory"?
4. question (optics)
5. animal
6. Physics: Gravitational Fields

February 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 February 26

1. Genetics: Focal amplification
2. Spectral sensitivity
3. Did the laws of mechanics are been identical to the laws of other sections of physics?
4. Megalosauroidea
5. Are humans instinctively able to ensure that the phallus goes into the correct orifice for successful mating?
6. Buried by time
7. If whales were fish
8. Pronunciation of "agRP"
9. Name of a tree in Miami
10. Bird identifciation

February 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 February 27

1. NASA's beautiful new denoising algorithm
2. Latex gloves
3. Physics: How can any black hole move?
4. Equatorial bulge and viewing distant objects
5. Is there a scientific consensus on how long people who existed during the Stone Age lived?
6. Mobile Phones
7. Is the speed of the electron being a (determinant of) main in nature?

February 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 February 28

1. Why do we store energy in a battery, and not in a big capacitor?
2. Moving in space
3. Extreme sexual practices
4. Mass bombardment 3.9 billion years ago and life